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A culture of endless striving without periods of consolidation is one of the two root causes of today's exhausted and ineffective workforce, a leadership specialist says.

According to The Culture Institute of Australia CEO Karl Treacher, current high levels of burnout are a predictable "cultural output".

"When organisations burn their people, it's because they have built systems that produce fire," Treacher says in his new book, Built to Burn.

There are many reasons why this happens, but one is that contemporary business culture "doesn't make contentment easy", he tells HR Daily...